Natalie Cadle
Catawba County Schools
Mountain View Elementary
Kindergarten
Flash Cards
I created some flashcard sets for the classroom and brainstormed ideas for others
to be completed in the future (Better Retention)
Social Studies:
1. landforms, continents, oceans, directions, 7 wonders of the world
2. Countries of the world
3. States in the United States
4. Weather terms
5. Professional Baseball teams and location
6. Professional Football teams and location
7. Job Titles & definitions
Language Arts
1. Prefixes (meaning/words)
2. Suffixes (meaning/words)
3. Root words (meaning/words)
Science
1. Zoo Animals
2. Farm Animals
3. Rain Forest Animals
4. Local (NC) Animals
5. Ocean Animals
6. Pets
Math
1. 1 (one), 10(ten), 100(one hundred), 1000 (one thousand), 10000 (ten
thousand)…….
2. Roman Numerals
3. Hundreds tens and ones cards
4. Math Facts (addition, subtraction, and multiplication)
Natalie Cadle
Catawba County Schools
Mountain View Elementary
Kindergarten
Tiered Weekly Writing Center:
Our Letter this week is _________. Complete the letter cut and paste sheet.
1: Sound out and spell the words for each picture. Make sure to start the word
with the letter of the week and go in the reading direction. Try to include a
beginning, middle and ending sound. Complete two cloze sentences with two
of the words: I can see a __________. Use spaces in between words.
2: Sound out and spell the words for each picture. Write a sentence about two
of the pictures. Make sure to start the sentence with a capital and end the
sentence with punctuation. Use spaces in between words. Use the word wall
to spell any sight words.
3: Sound out and spell the words for each picture. Choose two of the things
pictured. Compare them. Tell how they are alike and different.
4: Sound out and spell the words for each picture. Make up a fictional story
with as many of the items pictured as you can. Be sure to include characters and
a beginning, middle and end OR choose one of the pictures write detailed clues so
someone could guess which picture you are describing.
____________________________ begins with the letter of the week. How
many cvc words can you spell with letters from this word? Words can be
real or nonsense. Can you spell any sight words using letters from this
word?
REAL cvc words
NONSENSE cvc words
Sight Words
Natalie Cadle
Catawba County Schools
Mountain View Elementary
Kindergarten
Weekly Tiered Reading Homework
(I plan to send only the specific tier instructions home for the student’s
working level)
For one of the books your student read independently ask them to:
1. Complete the corresponding chart by drawing a picture and verbally
explaining
2. Complete the corresponding chart in writing
Fiction
Title
Characters
and Setting
Beginning
Middle
End
Nonfiction
Title
Main Idea
Supporting
Detail
Supporting
Detail
Supporting
Detail
3. Answer two of the following question stems:
Nonfiction
What would be another good title for this book?
What was the main idea of this text? Name three supporting details.
What was the author’s purpose for writing this story?
Fiction
Compare the two characters in the book. How are they alike and different?
Why do you think ________________ did ______________ in the story?
What was the author’s purpose for writing this story?
Natalie Cadle
Catawba County Schools
Mountain View Elementary
Kindergarten
(Parents: see the attached list for more question stems. Parents would
choose from a list of questions our county uses for practicing the written
portion of the mclass assessment. Some of the above questions are some
that I remember from this list of questions).
Other Ideas:
Use multi-step problems in math (Complexity):
Example:
1. Jan bought 5 balls. Some were red and some were yellow. Show the
different ways some could be red and some could be yellow.
2. If red balls cost $1.00 and yellow balls cost $2.00, how much money
would she need for each possibility?
3. What is the most expensive way? Least expensive way?
Example:
1. There were ten puppies. Some were brown and some were white.
Show the different ways some could be brown and some could be white.
2. If each brown puppy eats ten pieces of food each day and each white
puppy eats five pieces of food, how many pieces of food will be needed
for one week for each way? Which combination needs the most food?
Least food?
I am going to look up and use the book Primary Grade Challenge Math by Edward
Zaccaro to provide challenging math problems for students with less prep in math
centers.
Real World Project (Tiered):
Students will design stickers for other students about the animals we will visit
during Bandy’s High School Agricultural day. (A field trip our class takes each year
in April to a local high school.)
Tier 1: draw and label one animal per sticker for the high school students to hand
out to students during Ag Day
Natalie Cadle
Catawba County Schools
Mountain View Elementary
Kindergarten
Tier 2: draw one animal and write one animal fact about the animal per sticker for
the high school students to hand out during Ag Day
Tier 3: Look up the words agriculture and horticulture. Make stickers explaining
the terms to hand out to students during Ag Day
Tier 4: Read the article explaining why Bandy’s High School continues to have Ag
Day each year. Write a letter to the program thanking them for providing us with
the opportunity to visit their school. Design a thank you sticker to be included in
the letter.
Weather
Kindergarten Social Studies Goal: Explain how people adapt to weather conditions
WHO CARES?
Doctor
Journalist
Farmer
How could weather conditions
affect a doctor’s daily work?
Why are weather conditions
important to journalists?
Why are weather conditions
crucial to a farmer?
Entrepreneur
Teacher
Coach
How could an entrepreneur use
weather to create a successful
business? What products or
services could they sell that
depend on certain weather
conditions? Explain.
Besides teaching students, why
should a teacher have
knowledge of weather
conditions?
In which sports do coaches
need to think about weather
conditions to be successful?
How can weather affect their
success?
Automobile
Manufacturer
Firefighter
Other Career? ________
What kind of weather may
affect a firefighter?
How does weather affect this
career?
What do automobile
manufacturers need to know
about weather conditions to
make cars?
*Who Cares table adapted from seeing Amy Patterson’s similar table about Human Body Systems in
class.